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ERRATA. 



CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. 



Page 24, line 33. Mr. Baker gives 150-1S0 as the number of leaves of Y. 

 recurvifolia. 



" 26. " 5. They are always thus tipped, much more sparingly in 

 some species than in others; hair usually i-celled, 

 sometimes articulated. 



" 27, '• 20. The ovules of Y. Treculiatia are among the thickest of 

 any. 



" 28, " 11. Read "does" for "seems to." 



" 29, " S. Dr. Engelmann found the pods of Y. aloifolia, Trecu- 

 liatia, baccata, and brevifolia, perforated and the 

 seeds eaten by the larvae. 



" 32, " 17. Read "2.0" for "2.5." 



" 33) li -2>- They reach nearly to the same northern latitude. 



" 34, " 27. Add to "floribus," " pendulis." 



" 42, " 22. Leaves of young plants nearly flat, whence discrepan- 

 cies in descriptions. 



'• 46, " 2. Dr. Wislizenus ascribes to them the same height. 



" 26. They rather belong to or near Y. angustifolia ; only 

 the fruit will decide. 



" 48) " 33- Read "subnudis" for " nudis." 



Yucca spitiosa, HBK. n. gen. i. 289, is made up of the 

 flower of a Yucca and the leaves of Dasylirion acro- 

 triche. (See p. 24, note.) 

 Yucca acaulis. HBK. ib., is a Fourcroya. 

 Yucca? parviflora, Torn Bot. Mex. Bound. 221, consti- 

 tutes the genus Hesperaloe, Engelm. King Bot., 40th 

 par. 497. 



" 81. " 14. Strike out the " a." 



" 121, " 3d from bottom, for "im" read " % ." 



" 349, " 12, for "scoparius" read "furcat" 



*' 35 1 ) 1 3' ^ me x i after "•Globe-Democrat" add ''correspondent from 



St. Joseph." 

 " 3S2, line 3d from below, read "Wheeler's" for "Whipple's"; other 

 errata in this article are corrected on 

 p. 387 and farther on. 

 '• 390. " nth " " " "Pluk." for "Pluck." 



" 42S, " 15, read 22b. instead of 22d. 

 " 430, " 2, " 24 s " 24. 



" 432, " 3, " +412 " —412. 



" 433. " 2 > " +692 " —692. 



" 434> " 2, " +715 " —715- 



" 435. " 5. " +6+8+759 " — *• 

 " 436, " 3. "+38+40+791" — 3S- 

 " 44S, " 4 from below, read "were" instead of "was." 

 " 450, " 13, read " — 43" instead of " — 41." 



